WG: Prophetic Vision
Overview
The prophetic vision concept in Hebrew Scripture involves a cluster of words describing divinely granted revelatory perception, the persons who receive it, and related acts of seeing. The core word חָזוֹן (chazon) sits at the center, with cognates from the root חזה and semantically related words from the ראה word family.
Word Group Members
| Strong's |
Word |
Transliteration |
POS |
Occurrences |
Role in Concept |
Library Entry |
| H2377 |
חָזוֹן |
chazon |
noun |
37 |
The content (prophetic revelation) |
H2377 |
| H2380 |
חָזוּת |
chazuwth |
noun |
5 |
Rare cognate (vision/appearance/compact) |
H2380 |
| H2372 |
חָזָה |
chazah |
verb |
51 |
The action (to perceive in vision) |
H2372 |
| H2374 |
חֹזֶה |
chozeh |
noun |
17 |
The person (seer/visionary) |
H2374 |
| H2384 |
חִזָּיוֹן |
chizzayon |
noun |
9 |
The experience (dream-vision) |
H2384 |
| H4236 |
מַחֲזֶה |
machazeh |
noun |
4 |
The mode (act of receiving vision) |
H4236 |
| H4758 |
מַרְאֶה |
mar'eh |
noun |
103 |
The form (visual appearance seen) |
H4758 |
| H5030 |
נָבִיא |
nabi |
noun |
316 |
The office (prophet — receives chazon) |
TODO(need H5030 study) |
| H7200 |
רָאָה |
ra'ah |
verb |
1313 |
The general act (to see — broader than chazah) |
H7200 |
Relationships
Shared Roots
- חזה root: chazon (H2377), chazah (H2372), chozeh (H2374), chizzayon (H2384), machazeh (H4236) — all from the root meaning "to gaze/perceive"
- ראה root: mar'eh (H4758), ra'ah (H7200) — the general seeing root, overlapping with חזה in visionary contexts
Co-occurrence (appear in same verses)
| Word A |
Word B |
Shared Verses |
Typical Context |
| chazon (H2377) |
nabi (H5030) |
9x |
"vision of the prophet" — prophets as recipients of chazon |
| chazon (H2377) |
mar'eh (H4758) |
2x |
Dan 8 — chazon and mar'eh used of the same revelation |
| chazon (H2377) |
chazah (H2372) |
2x |
vision received + act of perceiving |
| chozeh (H2374) |
nabi (H5030) |
10x |
seer and prophet as overlapping prophetic offices |
| chazah (H2372) |
ra'ah (H7200) |
7x |
prophetic seeing paired with general seeing |
| mar'eh (H4758) |
ra'ah (H7200) |
30x |
appearance/form + the act of seeing it |
LXX Overlaps
| Hebrew Words |
Shared Greek |
Notes |
| chazon (H2377) + mar'eh (H4758) |
both → ὅρασις (G3706) |
Greek flattens distinction between revelation-content and visual-form |
| chazon (H2377) + chizzayon (H2384) |
both → ὅρασις (G3706) |
Greek loses distinction between prophetic oracle and dream-vision |
Roles in the Concept
- Content/Oracle: chazon (חָזוֹן) — the revelatory message itself
- Action (prophetic): chazah (חָזָה) — the act of perceiving divine revelation
- Action (general): ra'ah (רָאָה) — general seeing, sometimes used for visions
- Person: chozeh (חֹזֶה) — the seer who receives visions
- Office: nabi (נָבִיא) — the prophet, institutional recipient of chazon
- Experience: chizzayon (חִזָּיוֹן) — the visionary experience, especially in dreams
- Mode: machazeh (מַחֲזֶה) — the act/mode of receiving prophetic vision
- Form: mar'eh (מַרְאֶה) — the visual appearance/form of what is seen
Key Passages Where Multiple Group Words Appear Together
- Dan 8:1–2 — chazon (the vision) + mar'eh (the appearance) in the same passage; Daniel receives a chazon and describes what he sees in the mar'eh
- Eze 12:22–27 — chazon appears 5x in this passage discussing the reliability and timing of prophetic vision
- Jer 14:14 — chazon + nabi: "The prophets prophesy lies... they prophesy unto you a false vision"
- 2 Chr 32:32 — chazon + chozeh (implied): "written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet"
Generated from: search_strongs.py, co-occurrence queries
Last updated: 2026-03-31